Just Finished Reading
Finished off:
Near Death in Venice by Jonathan Biggins
Started on:
The Good Father by Liam McIlvanney (audio)
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Friday Update: The Reading Queue (16th October)
The #WishList continues unabated. (And the 16 year old Laverne was having none of this "15 year old Shirley's getting all the attention just because she's got bladder cancer" and got herself a diabetes diagnosis. So more chaos).
#JustFinished
I've close enough to finished Near Death in Venice by Jonathan Biggins so I'm listing it here.
F1RST Y0U SEE THEM. THEN YOU D15APPEAR.
It started with the numbers. Spray-painted in red on street signs, outside homes and train stations.
Then came the messages. At random, thousands upon thousands of complete strangers received a text on their phones: 10 15 is coming. It wasn't a clue - it was a warning.
Last night, the first twelve were taken from their homes. No ransom, no note, just the numbers scrawled on their bedroom walls.
An eminent High Court Judge is forced to reckon her professional life and role as wife, mother, friend, and feminist when a devastating crisis hits home.
Jessica is a recently appointed Judge in London, who grapples with balancing her demanding professional responsibilities with her roles as a mother, wife, friend, and feminist. She belongs to a new breed of judicial minds, working actively within the legal framework to bring morality, compassion, and human decency into an infrastructure historically built without women in mind.
Tessa is a thoroughbred. A young, brilliant barrister from a working-class background now at the top of her game: defending, cross-examining and lighting up the shadows of doubt in any case. The law is a game and she is its most talented player.
One sickening night, though, Tessa finds herself in a position countless women - one in three - have been in before her. And she's faced with a gut-wrenching, life-changing decision. Will she take the stand to testify about her rape, with the full awareness that the system has not been built to protect her?
It was meant to be the perfect family trip at a house by a lake, miles from anywhere… until five-year old Gus disappears. Did he wander off into the empty fields? Or was he taken by someone close to home?
The mother: I never wanted to come on this trip but my sweet son Gus is so excited to see his cousins. My ex-husband Kyle is here, and his new fiancé. We’re all playing happy families until my beautiful little boy goes missing. My heart is broken. And the accusations start…
Sometimes, the truth will cost you everything
A sleepy coastal town. An unsolved disappearance. A sister who can't forget.
Ren Holbrook was a teenager on a family holiday when her younger sister, Daisy, vanished from Crackerly Bay. With few leads, the case quickly went cold, leaving heartbreak in its wake.
But Ren has always known who killed Daisy. So when another girl goes missing from the same place eighteen years later, she knows Arthur Bicknell's murderous habits have resurfaced.
Timothy Blake returns in a tense, unputdownable thriller from the author of Hangman.
A Chinese astronaut is found dead in a NASA training environment in Houston, Texas. No one can explain how he got there. Amid fears of a diplomatic catastrophe, the CIA dispatches Timothy 'Hangman' Blake to investigate, because a convicted kidnapper works in the facility - someone Blake put away a long time ago.
Empathy, Brian Walpert
I have to admit that the blurb of EMPATHY didn't bode well for this reader who is a tad allergic to unrealistic scenarios, let alone one that's all about empathy in a bottle, and a game which involves people learning to understand one another without direct communication. So I approached EMPATHY with a slight twitch, with the thought in mind that the author is an Ockham finalist so the writing should be good. And it definitely was.